It's funny how if everyone just went and "read the documentation" like they tend to obnoxiously tell you to do.. stackoverflow wouldn't exist. Personally I go and look for things I can answer if someone asks a question that I know will get obliterated but I can tell they just need some help. I'll try to answer it before it gets downgraded and they get banned

Where exactly am I supposed to go for programming questions if SO goes under? I don't suppose there's a Fediverse equivalent?

I mostly end up with answers from a handful of top tier devs.. I'm kind of glad they prevent junk and noise so I get the answers I need, ymmv

I can see for myself that I go way less often since I use github copilot

I mean discourse exists now

It doesn't look to be a decline at all (quite healthy on the contrary) until around the time ChatGPT was released.